Testing device.



J. MUGHKA.

TESTING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 28, 190B.

Patented June 14,1910.

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TESTING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Batented June 14, 1910.

Application filed May 28,1908. S erial No. 435,578.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Josnr MUOHKA, a

citizen of Austria, and residing at Vienna,

clear, and exact specification.

This invention relates to an improved apparatus for testing the efiiciency of steam separators and the like.

The apparatus comprises a condensation cylinder of transparent material fitted with a color scale and connected to the exhaust pipe leading from the separator by means of an intercepting tube, so that part of the vapor flowing from the separator will be caused to condense in the cylinder, and the degree of milky 0 aqueness of the condensate determined with the aid of the scale. I

The apparatus also comprises certain details of construction hereinafter more particularly described.

In the annexed drawings which illustrate theinvention Figures 1 and 2 show the apparatus in sectionin two lanes, at ri ht angles to each other, while igs. 3, 4 an 5; illustrate diagrammatically the different positions of details of the apparatus which they may assume during use.

The improved a paratus consists, as shown at Figs; 1 an 2, of a glass cylinder A, which is patked between two cover lates D and F by means of the bolts B an suitable packin These cover plates carry cock casings G, the casings being connected by a tube J; this tube J is preferably flexible with a helical coil C in order that the cylinder A may be removed without detaching the 7 connection between the cock casings. The cock K of the casing G mounted on the upper cover D has a three-way passage 1 and a through-way passage 2, while the cock M of the lower casing has only a -three-way' passage 3. Also connected to the upper casin is the tube N which by means of the bush is tightl fitted in thesteam exhaust pipe R oomin rom the separator. The end of the tube extending into the-pipe R is cut oil at an inclination and the opening Q of the same is directed toward the issuing steam so that when the cooks K and M are in-the right position vapor can pass into the glass cylinder A. partly through the openlng 4 in the upper cover and partly r through the connecting tube J and the opening 5 on the lower cover.

When the apparatus is to be operated for the purpose of making a test, the cooks K and M are set into the positions shown in Fig. 3 so that the steam caught by the tube N can pass into the glass cylinder and condense therein. From the color of the condensate which is clearer the less emulsified oil it contains the contents of emulsified oil can be approximately estimated with the aid of a color scale. As the test can be made with greater certainty with light passing through than with light falling on the liquid, it is preferable to make the scale of transparent glass and to fit the same in the form of a glass strip S arranged in a frame T alongside the cylinder A. When the test has been completed the condensate collected,

, haust pipe R the cooks are brought into the positions shown in Fig. 5. In this case the interior of the cylinder is connected on top with the atmosphere by the passage 2, and at bottom communicates with the tube J through the passage 4, which in turn is connected with the tube N through the threeway passage 1. As now air can enter the interior of the cylinder the vapor passing over the mouth of the tube N can exert a suction efiect in the tubes N and J, the condensate is sucked back out of the cylinder A. into the pipe R. In order to increase the suction effect in this case, the tube N can be shifted around 90.

With slight experience, by means of the scale, the contents ofoil in the condensate can be estimated with approximate accuracy, and it is thus possible not only to demonstrate or test the efliciency of a separator visually.

Iclaim:

1. In an apparatus of the character described the combination with the exhaust ipe of a separator, of a condensation cyliner of transparent material, an intercepting tube connecting I tube connectin the said cylinder and exer 'of transparent material, an interce ting the said cylinder an haust pipe, an a color scale for estimating the proportion of oil present, said color scale being of transparent glass and fitted along- 5 scribed the combinationywith the exhaust side the condensation -cylinder.

3. In an apparatus'ofthe character degipe of a separator, of a condensation cylinf er of transparent material, cover plates between which said cylinder is secured, each of said plates carrying a cock-casing, an intercepting tube connecting said cylinder and exhaust pipe, a tube connecting said cockcasings,-cocks arranged within said casin and dapted to connect the interior of e cylinder with the intercepting tube alone or with the atmosphere alone .or with the intercepting tube and also the atmosphere, all

as described. I 4

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

J OSEF MUCHKA. Witnesses: v

Wmrmmr' Born, Roma: W. HEINGABTNER, 

